1998. Santa Fe, Santa Fe. Argentina

Madalí Pizarro works with scenes that take place in the northern area of her city, observing and translating into images the context in which she lives and works. In ceramics, she found numerous possibilities for experimenting with textures and colors that come close to the meanings carried by the experiences she brings forward: the earth, the street, mud, people, and neighborhoods.

Pizarro uses local clay as her raw material, extracting it from the waterways that surround her. This material allows her to create a bond between the expressive force of the images and the symbolic weight of the material itself. Through drawing, clay, and recovered materials she finds in containers and on the street, she reconstructs the stories that run through both her collective and personal experience.

Her artistic practice remains in constant dialogue with the people she encounters along her paths and in the spaces where she gives workshops. There, she learns to understand her artistic production as a medium strongly shaped by the social context she inhabits.

She graduated from the Visual Arts School with a focus on production at the Escuela Provincial “Profesor Juan Mantovani”. In 2022, she was selected for the “Tiempo compartido” program at the CEC in the city of Santa Fe, where she participated in the collective exhibition with the work “Trinchera”. In 2023, she took part in the collective exhibition “Arquitectura Sensible” with the collective of artists and educators “#En Una Relación”.

In 2024, she was recognized with the Prince Claus Seed Award, granted by the Prince Claus Fund, an international distinction that supports artists and cultural practitioners whose work addresses urgent social, political, and cultural issues.

In 2025, she presented her solo exhibition “Que se vayan todos” at CRUDO, Rosario. In 2023, she was invited by Bienal Sur to present her solo exhibition “El barro y la historia”, curated by Clarisa Appendino, at the Museo “Sor Josefa Díaz y Clucellas”.

Together with CRUDO, she participated in the art fairs +Feria de Santa Fe (2023 and 2025, Santa Fe) and ArteCo (2024, Corrientes).

Currently, Madalí Pizarro lives, studies, and works in the city of Santa Fe.